The Evening Post. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 274, 23 December 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1865.

Next Monday being Christmas Day, the Evening Post will not be published, but will make its usual appearance on the following evening, A proclamation appears in this day's General Government Gazette, further proroguing Parliament to the 25th of January next, The Gazette also contains the appointment by his Excellency the Governor of Alfred Domett, Esq., to be Registrar-General of Land, in place of H. Sewell, Esq., resigned. Walter Scott Reid, Esq., is gazetted as Registrar of Deeds at Inrercargill, in the Province of Southland, and the appointment of D. B. M'Oonnel, Esq. ,"is cancelled. The weekly meeting of the Wellington Town Board Commissioners was held in the Board-room yesterday afternoon, when the following gentlemen attended : — Messrs. Bishop, Borlase, Collins, Dransfleld, and E. W. Mills. Messrs. Hibble, C. H. Gillispie, J. Killraister, and W. Cooper, residents in the Tinakori Road, waited on the Board for the purpose of laying before them the state of that road, and requesting that steps might be taken for its repair. Mr Borlase supported the statements made by the deputation, and it was resolved that an advertisement should be inserted in the papers announcing that specifications for the construction of an open timber drain would be seen at the City Surveyor's Office on and after the 27th instant, and that tenders would be received at; the same place until noon on Friday, the sth January. A letter was read from Mr M'Leod, late Provincial Engineer, offering his services to the Board, should they entertain the idea of having a water supply laid down, the consideration of which was postponed. Mr Borlase gave his legal opinion as to the powers of the Town Board over the Market Hall as follows :— " Wellington, Dec. 22,1865,—Gentlemen—In the matter of the Wellington Market, I am of opinion that the Town Board has a power of management only of the Market, as given to the Market Commissioners by the Act of the Provincial Council, Sept. 1, No. 12. The Town Board has, I believe, no vested right sufficient to enable it to sue for past rent, and I think that it would not be advisable to deal with the market at all, unless it is given up to the Board by

the present tenant without further litigation.—C. B. Borlase." An animated discussion took place between Messrs Borlase and Dransfield as to the desirability of having tho Market Hall erected. It was resolved that appeals against the rates be heard at the office on Tuesday, the 9th January next, and that notices to that effect should be inserted in the papers. The City Surveyor presented his report, which was adopted, and the meeting adjourned. The visit of his Honor the Superintendent to Wanganui is, we understand, for the purpose of performing the inaugural ceremony on the occasion of uncovering the Moutoa Monument on Tuesday next, after which a banquet will be given to the Native Contingent. The intended interview between the Hon. Mr Stafford and the Board of Directors and Manager of the New Zealand Steam Navigation Company relative to the contemplated withdrawal of the steam subsidies, did not take place to-day, but the deputation, we understand, will be received by the honorable gentleman on Tuesday next. Preparations for visiting the forthcoming races at Porirua and Pahautanui have been , made by Mr Taylor, whose conveyances will leave Barry's Ship Hotel on the mornings of Tuesday and Wednesday next. The Managing Committee of tHe Odd Fellows' Hall have engaged the steamer Lady Bird for an excursion to Loury Bay on Boxing Day. Refreshments will be provided by Mr C. Merritt, and a quadrille band accompany the party. The fare to the Bay and back is little more than nominal. A detachment of the Military Train, nuraberiug 150 left Auckland for the Waikato, to relieve the Colonial Transport Corps stationed there. ' A rumour has reached Auckland, by way of Coromandel, to the effect that Kereopa, the murderer of Mr. Volkner, has been hung at Taupo. The Government of New South Wales purposes to make up a large deficit in revenue by a scheme of direct taxation, which is calculated to reach all classes. It meets with considerable opposition in Parliament, but it is expected the scheme will be carried. New wheat is quoted, at Adelaide, at 8s 3d ; flour (country brands), £20 to £20 10s.We learn that a deputation from the Committee of Management of the National Games waited on Mr. John Martin, and requested the use of a paddock for the sports on New Year's Day, when that gentleman at once acceded to the request,and gratuitously placed at the disposal of the committee a very fine fluid, lately mown, adjoining his own residence in G-huznee street. The Town Board Commissioners will attend at their office on Tuesday, 9th January, for the purpose of hearing appeals against the rate. On the Ist of January, the West Coast Times will commence its career as a daily newspaper ; the subscription will be twelve shillings a month. At a meeting of the Wellington Presbytery, at Wanganui, on Monday last, the Rev # Mr. Hogg formally resigned charge of his congregation on account of illness. The members of the Presbytery expressed much sympathy with the reverend gentleman in his i present state of health, and recommended Mr. Hogg's case to the liberality of the congregation. A detachment of 373 men of the 70th Regiment arrived at Auckland from Napier early on Saturday morning last, by H.M.S.S. Esk, for conveyance home per ships Siam and Ida Ziegler. This detachment comprises the head-quarters of the regiment. We are able to congratulate the inhabitants of the city on the prospect of tho long talked of water works being speedily undertaken, the Union Bank of Australia having found parties willing to advance as it may be needed the required loan of £20,000. Debentures for £4,500 will be forwarded to Melbourne I by the first mail, bearing date from the Ist of January next, and these will be at once negociated, and the works started. — Nelson Examiner. The Wanganui papers confirm the statement made a few days since of the death by drowning, at Patea, of two officers of the 18th Royal Irish, namely Lieutenant Lawson and Ensign G. C. Terchius. Private Tobmey, of the 50th, was also unfortunately drowned at Wanganui on Wednesday last, while bathI ing in the river. I A correspondent of the New Zealand Herald

thus writes :— " Permit me, through the medium of your most ably conducted paper, to call the attention of the community to the fact that many men in Auckland are starving ; many are the cases which weekly come under my personal observation of men having been two days without partaking of food, of some so thoroughly exhausted as to be hardly able to crawl 1"